New phone cam is OK in daylight but useless in the dark. 



Haven't had any luck protecting the lens cover.  The TPU truck holster is just grinding them up.  This one already has wear on the plastic surround.  It needs a microfiber cloth wherever it goes.

This one has a 12 megapixel normal camera, 8 megapixel wide camera, 16 megapixel selfie camera for a total of 36 megapixels. They're all good enough for a lion to be comfortable ditching the DSLR.

 


 

There is a night vision mode which has extreme halftoning artifacts in dark areas.  

 


 

Normal mode does better in the dark, with a tripod, but you must disable automatic night vision to get rid of the halftone artifacts.

 


Wide mode is useless in the dark.


Wide mode is somewhat useful with night mode, if you don't mind halftoning.

 

Ultrares just scales it up to 50 megapixels.  There is a leveler which just draws an artificial horizon but doesn't level anything.


There is a PRO mode which is the 1st time lions had full manual control in a phone. It has no exposure preview, metering below 1/8s or exposure bracketing.  There is only taking test photos.  Sadly, it has much less dynamic range than any auto mode.

Panorama mode finally captures a full 3400 vertical pixels in portrait mode & 2008 pixels in landscape mode so be sure to hold it in portrait mode.



Pro mode & 3 second timer is the best you're going to get in the dark.



Pro mode vs night vision.

The flash is supported in pro mode, but requires automatic shutter speed.  Only ISO is configurable with the flash.

In pro mode with a tripod, it's the 1st phone cam good enough to replace a DSLR even in the dark.  It's just slow.  The tripod is easier to transport than the DSLR.

The DSLR would only be for forensic investigation, macros, or stars.  

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The showstopper with the latest phone is now the volume.  It automatically lowers the bluetooth volume after 30 minutes or some non deterministic time.  There's no way to override it anymore.  The best alternative might be a program which constantly resets the volume or an alternative audio protocol, but the GPS calls would have to be ported, too.  If the volume is set by the speaker, it might be time for a custom speaker that still uses bluetooth for data & overrides the volume.

Only 1 program can use the modem at a time, so there would have to be a router taking music or text from other programs.

The jellybean HC-06 bluetooth radios have a high enough data rate to send audio.  Of course, the best solution might be a confuser with 128GB of storage attached to the speaker, taking serial commands from the phone to play songs & read text. 

The speaker needs a confuser no matter what.  The best solution might be the phone sending complete mp3 files to the speaker.








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